Crime Theory Exam 1
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| Physical, Emotional, Psychological, Financial | Types of Harm |
| Harm inflicted, status of victim, moral judgments, offender characteristics | Assessing Seriousness of Crime |
| Views criminal law as reflecting the interest of the public. | Consensus Model |
| Theories to Hypothesis to Observation to Empirical generalizations | Wallace's Wheel of Science |
| Intentional act in violation of the criminal law, no defense or excuse, penalized by state | Legalistic Definition |
| Crime is behavior that causes injury to the state, act is not criminal by the fact it is punished but by the fact that it is punishable. | Modified Legalistic |
| Crime is a violation of conduct norms. Not all anitsocial behaviors are going to be prohibited by legal code. | Normative Definition |
| More broader than theories, school of thought, specific assumptions about a phenomenom. | Criminal Paradigms |
| Assumes individuals are rational beings and can weigh the costs and benefits of their actions. | Rational Choice |
| Stop crime through time and punishment | Deterence Doctrine |
| Stop crime through time and punishment | Deterence Doctrine |
| Stop crime through time and punishment | Deterence Doctrine |
| Stop crime through time and punishment | Deterence Doctrine |
| Opportunities that present itself thru motivated offenders, suitable targets, lack of gaurdianship. | Routine Activity Theory |
| Rooted in new, radical, and Marxist perspectives, rejects official definitions of crime. Focuses on why most offenders are lower in the social hierarchy. | Critical Criminology |
| No one particular set of assumptions or theory can fully explain a phenomenon. Need a combo of at least two or more. | Theoretical Integration**** |
| IV always comes first | IV and DV |
| When you make conclusions about individuals based on group data | Ecological fallacy |
| #Victims/population x 100 | Prevalence |
| What types? How are they defined? Looking at offenders, victims, or incidents | Difficulties in measuring crime |
| Murder, rape, robbery, agg assault, burglary, larceny theft, motor vehicle theft | Worst crimes in order: |